Time For An Education System Makeover

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Our educational system needs a makeover – not based on politics or standardized test scores but on what we know about how our brains work and how we learn. Continue reading →

Why the ‘most innovative companies’ aren’t

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You may recognize their brands, but these admired companies have few practices in common that would distinguish them from the rest of the rabble.

How to Be a Highly Innovative Company

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Innovation isn’t just one persons job. A highly innovative company makes innovation the norm throughout the organization, from top to bottom.Watch most organizations operate and you’ll find that innovation typically emerges from one of three sources:

Customer Lifecycle: Choose your customers first

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It seems obvious, doesn’t it? Each cohort of customers has a particular worldview, a set of problems, a small possible set of solutions available. Each cohort has a price they’re willing to pay, a story they’re willing to hear, a

Choose your customers first

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It seems obvious, doesn’t it? Each cohort of customers has a particular worldview, a set of problems, a small possible set of solutions available. Each cohort has a price they’re willing to pay, a story they’re willing to hear, a

Let the People Live-Stream?

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Startup Koozoo wants us to join its streaming video network. I’m not convinced of its widespread utility, though.

Top 20 Innovation Articles – February 2013

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Drum roll please At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence. We also publish a weekly Top 10 as part of our free Innovation Excellence Weekly magazi

Silicon Valley Is High on Innovation. And Pot – Businessweek

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Being a computer coder takes a physical toll. The long hours sitting at a keyboard can cause back and wrist pain. You can run to a pharmacy and pick up some Advil, or if you’re in Silicon Valley, you can drop by the Palliative Health Center for som

Analysis: From builders to managers: educating China’s leadership

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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Sun Zhengcai earned his PhD from China Agricultural University in 1997, experimenting with different fertilizers for crop rotation in northern China, according to his doctoral thesis.

Groupon Announces Leadership Change

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Groupon , the global leader in local commerce, today announced a leadership change in which Executive Chairman Eric Lefkofsky and Vice Chairman Ted Leonsis have been appointed to the newly created Office of the Chief Executive, effective immediately,